Wireless sharing - 58% of top songs are sharable? — This week, Jason from ZuneThoughts noted some underwhelming wireless sharing results among Zune owners at CES, and from his own spot-checking. — Zune's wireless sharing is described by Microsoft with a footnote - indicating that …

Universal and Sony Don't Like Zune to Zune Sharing — There is a lot of testing going on at Zunerama and ZuneThoughts about songs that can or cannot be shared when purchased or acquired through the ZunePass. Both sites are coming with numbers of around 40% of songs that "can't" be shared from Zune to Zune.

Google opens dialogue with book publishers — NEW YORK—To anyone who thinks digital content is a threat to the book-publishing market, Google wants to tell you two things: first, you're wrong; second, its Google Book Search product is the solution, not the problem.

AT&T Expands Free In - Network Calling — NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T customers who subscribe to both its Cingular Wireless and traditional phone services can now make and receive unlimited free calls to and from any other AT&T or Cingular customer. — The expanded ''free calling'' network …

AT&T: My Community Is Bigger than Yours — Fresh from closing the BellSouth deal, the biggest U.S. telecom provider is beginning to show why size matters in telecom — AT&T plans to send a new message. A number of TV ads starting this weekend will show people placing calls to friends across the country—for no charge.

Hold Off On Net Neutrality — The Internet needs a makeover. Unfortunately, congressional initiatives aimed at preserving the best of the old Internet threaten to stifle the emergence of the new one. — The current Internet supports many popular and valuable services.

SimulScribe Boldly Spams TechCrunch Readers — A couple of days ago I wrote about Spinvox, a startup that converts voicemails to text and sends them to you via email and/or SMS. They are just launching in the U.S., and Spinvox gave us 100 accounts to give away for free (the service is fairly expensive).

Steve Ballmer Still Largely Incoherent — You know whose opinion of the iPhone I never needed to get? Steve Ballmer's, that's who. Even more than Bill Gates, Ballmer's always represented just how little Microsoft understands what anyone but middle managers and IT professionals need and want.

Wiki Vendors Wrangle Over Wiki.com Domain — Lately I've received some odd emails from wiki vendors Wikia and MindTouch about the domain wiki.com. A brief history: wiki.com (the domain name) was bought last year by entrepreneur John Gotts for a staggering $2.86 Million.

GOOGLE: North Carolina to tend search engine servers — The fabulously profitable search engine, having pitted two depressed areas in the Carolinas against eachother, has picked Lenoir in Caldwell County as the location of a giant new server farm. I'm sure there will be plenty of rhetoric …

When Being a Verb is Not Enough — I spoke recently with an old friend who is a bandwidth broker. He buys and sells bandwidth on fiber-optic networks around the world. And he told me something that I found not completely surprising, but I certainly hadn't known: Google controls more network fiber than any other organization.